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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (16pt Large Print Edition) by Martin Luther King Jr.
baffledborealis's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
outcolder's review against another edition
5.0
[a:Bill Ayers|9966|Bill Ayers|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1266889622p2/9966.jpg]'s "To Teach" quotes from this a few times, and it was always something that makes you go 'hmm' so I got the book. It's the last book-length writing from MLK and I think it was published after the assassination. MLK is dealing with the criticisms from the 'black power' groups while trying to move past some of the more limited short term goals of the civil rights movement and begin the 'poor peoples movement' in the bigger cities.
The book changed my view of MLK. I guess I had the symbolic meaning of MLK and the idea of him as man of nonviolent direct action, and I've been much more familiar with speeches and writings from Malcolm X and the Black Panthers than anything King wrote or said. This book reveals an MLK who is deeply concerned with philosophy and theory and how it informs his praxis. So I guess what I'm saying is, there's a lot more to MLK than you'd get from the Dream speech or Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and its all very right on.
One thing that's kind of sad maybe is how topical the book remains. We're still dealing with "guided missiles and misguided men."
The book changed my view of MLK. I guess I had the symbolic meaning of MLK and the idea of him as man of nonviolent direct action, and I've been much more familiar with speeches and writings from Malcolm X and the Black Panthers than anything King wrote or said. This book reveals an MLK who is deeply concerned with philosophy and theory and how it informs his praxis. So I guess what I'm saying is, there's a lot more to MLK than you'd get from the Dream speech or Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and its all very right on.
One thing that's kind of sad maybe is how topical the book remains. We're still dealing with "guided missiles and misguided men."
asusini's review against another edition
5.0
The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
anabananaz's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
scos618's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
Wow. This should be required reading. He discusses issues we are still facing. If you’ve ever posted MLK quotes, you should read his words. Brilliant and more in depth.
jmacleod's review against another edition
5.0
Prophetic.
I don’t know what to say about the fact that many of the issues Dr. King addresses in his final book are still very much alive today. Apart from financial statistics from the 1960’s and anecdotes to the Vietnam war, I would have assumed he was talking about the present day.
This book focuses on the need for economic justice to find racial harmony in the United States and the world at large. Talking about affordable desegregated housing policy as well as a livable wage and even a universal basic income seem revolutionary even today.
It is a wonder how this man may have helped to continue to transform the world if were let to live his life.
I don’t know what to say about the fact that many of the issues Dr. King addresses in his final book are still very much alive today. Apart from financial statistics from the 1960’s and anecdotes to the Vietnam war, I would have assumed he was talking about the present day.
This book focuses on the need for economic justice to find racial harmony in the United States and the world at large. Talking about affordable desegregated housing policy as well as a livable wage and even a universal basic income seem revolutionary even today.
It is a wonder how this man may have helped to continue to transform the world if were let to live his life.
ryanteston's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0